Circus Animal’s Desertion by Yeats and constructive language
Michael Gallagher Yeats‘ poem as presented below is illustrative of the constructive nature of discourse (and what is poetry aside from a complex discourse at the very least with one’s soul); language…
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A Christmas Card from last year
Coming back to work today, I noticed something I had tacked to my office wall. It is there amidst papers with project codes, routing rules, and other matters of dubious…
9.11.2009: My Euology for Lawrence Gallagher
Today I learned that my uncle Lawrence Gallagher of Youngstown, Ohio, passed away peacefully. My father called to tell me the news. My wife and I shed a few tears,…
Poem for the Day: W.H. Auden’s “Lullaby”, Andrew Marvell and Marvin Gaye
Lullaby by W. H. Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves…
President Obama’s Text for Speech to for Back to School Event: 9.08.2009
Below is the text from the speech that President Obama gave today for students returning back to school. Politics aside, this speech is stirring and entirely devoid of anything that…
Nietzsche, Jason Schwartzman, Mozart and Discord: Teaching philsophy/art online
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as…
Primary vs. Secondary Sources in Presentation and Teaching
I get asked this question a lot in my work at a large non-profit academic database: what is the difference between a primary and secondary source? As we move towards…